Bellydance: A Guide to Middle Eastern Dance, Its Music, Its Culture and Costume

by Keti Sharif

For those wanting to shake and shimmy their way to a firmer body, this comprehensive guide to belly dancing offers instructions on how to make the most of the hot belly-dancing-as-fitness trend. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1741143764
• ISBN13: 9781741143768
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Australia
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Very Beautiful Book

I loved this book, it had pictures as backgrounds. It has demonstrations in the book how to do moves-the most common ones in bellydance. It teaches history about bellydance, costumes...and more...I think every bellydancer should start out with this book.

Belly Dance by Keti Sharif

Keti Sharif is an Australian living on the Red Sea Egypt has been dancing since she was 17 has studies in Cairo with Egyptian Choreographers and leads cultural tours. If anyone would like to know about the celebration of dance cultural notes, outfits and some explanations of dance routines this book does it for me.

Bellydance

Keti Sharif has put together a very informative and delightfully presented instructional book. The photography is excellent and the instructions are very clear and make sense. Keti Sharif is australia born and lives on the Red Sea in Egypt. She performs and teaches bellydance and hosts cultural tours of Egypt. Well done Keti. I teach bellydance and will be only too pleased to promote this book at my classes. My students will most likely buy a copy of this book. Anyone interested in Bellydance and Egyptian Culture or Middle Eastern Culture would be very pleased with the contents of this book, women love to express themselves and this type of dance does so refreshingly and culturally diverse techniques are explained. To celebrate our bodies is our divine right and we can enhance our health by bellydance. I invite women to take up this ancient art of expression, celebration, and good workout with pleasant music and rythms.

Lovely photography, good info about belly dance

I'm a belly dance teacher in metro Atlanta, and I really enjoyed this beautiful Australian book. The photos are absolutely lovely, and there are lots of them. There's good background info on the history of belly dance, plus basic info about warm-ups and descriptions of basic movements, but what I liked best was the cultural info about how belly dance varies from country to country. There is a good discussion of the many different styles of belly dance, which is info that I've not seen in other books.

Lots of cultural info!

This book is not just a bellydance for fitness book - anyone knows you cannot learn to dance from a book. It discusses benefits of the dance and will enhance your learning experience. It's also a handy reference for teachers and students alike with its information about the rhythms, instrumentation and cultural context of various forms of Middle Eastern Dance.